We tell you how you touch us I hear you when you write Your songs speak out the battles You keep fighting in the night And the things you say about yourself They just don’t ring true It’s not the way we see you When your music’s breaking through You are a pillar Talent wrapped in pain You turn your weight to wonder You make beauty from the strain And you don’t even know it The way your words break through You call it hurt and heartache We call it something true We see you Even when you don’t We hear the fire Behind the smoke You call it weakness We call it art You bare your soul And strike a spark It’s just you And your honesty too And every great artist Bleeds a little truth And you know I love you So I see the best in you I have seen you angry I have watched you suffer through I know the world can wear you down I know you feel alone What’s a modern man supposed to do When the pressure chills the bone? With all the expectations Aall the things you think you need To be enough, be worthy To deserve your biggest dreams What flows out from your mind Through your hands into the keys Is the dust of being human The fight to breathe and to believe We see you Even when you don’t We hear the fire behind the smoke You call it weakness We call it art You bare your soul And strike a spark It’s just you And your honesty too And every great artist Bleeds a little truth It’s life It’s breath It’s how we make our way And even when you doubt it You still help somebody stay The grit beneath the surface The demons we all face And somehow in your breaking You teach the rest of us our grace We see you Even when you don’t We hear the fire Behind the smoke You call it darkness We call it gold You think it’s breaking But it gives us hope Be my friend Be my workmate Be my fellow lover of the art Keep creating Keep igniting All the worlds inside your heart It’s just you And your honesty too And every great artist Shares their angst So somebody else gets through
